Call My Agent

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Call My Agent
Genre	Sitcom Satire
Starring	Michael D. Cassidy Robert McRaney Sarah Cyrus Emily Newell Billie Fincham Alan Long
Country of origin	Euro Republics
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	6
No. of episodes	85
Production
Executive producer(s)	James Walden Nick Lawrence
Running time	25 minutes 50 minutes (specials)
Production company(s)	TV3 Productions
Release
Network	TV3
Release	6 October 1992 - 4 March 1998

Call My Agent! is a Euroish sitcom that premiered on TV3 on 6 October 1992. The series depicts talent agents at the fictional agency CSA (Carl Somers and Associates) and their relationships with their clients, who vary from actors and television and radio personalities, to politicians and popstars.

The show was highly successful with many international remakes, in which the show is presented as more of a comedy-drama than the original incarnation.

Synopsis

The series follows four agents who jointly take control of CSA after the death of its founder and head. The agents attempt to manage production and public relations crises arising from their clients' egos, financial and legal difficulties, and other complications, while also maintaining rivalries with one another for power and prestige.

Characters

Agents

• Michael D. Cassidy as Victor "Vic" Barrowman, a "cold and calculating" agent more concerned with himself than his clients or colleagues.
• Robert McRaney as Richard "Ric" Parris (series 1-3), an elderly agent from another era, regarded by his peers as a bigoted, cold presence, although is a close friend of Victor, leading the two to be known as "Vic and Ric".
• Sarah Cyrus as Lea Melrose, a demanding career woman who burns through assistants. She wants the agency to open a production division, joining the ever growing number of independent television production companies.
• Emily Newell as Bonnie Newton, the "youngest, clumsiest and most kind-hearted" of the agents.
• Billie Fincham as Elaine Nettles, an assistant at CSA
• Alan Long as Charlston "Charlie" Cleghorne (recurring series 1-3, regular series 4-6), a wealthy, stuck-up agent with little-to-no interest in what he calls "fluff", who attempted to run for mayor of Doylesbury (on behalf of the National party) before coming last place.

Clients

• Steve Dobson as Owen Barnaby, a well-known actor across the world, who often potrays friendly family men in movies, but whose real world attitude could not be more different.
• Denis Kauch as Roy "Double R" Richardson, a popular comedian, close to Vic and Ric, whose problems with alcoholism and racism plague the team of CSA.
• Linda Olberman as Esther McCoy/Cleghorne (regular series 1-2 and 5-6), host of morning television news programme The Day at Dawn, McCoy possesses a friendly and unassuming demeanour on screen, dampened in series 1 by a bigoted, politically charged tirade that ends in her being fired from the show, and dropped by the agency. She later returns in series 5, having married Charlie Cleghorne, and taking his surname. Under this new guise, she makes a return to television hosting a trashy nightly current affairs show, Primetime Worldnight (a parody of Prime's Newsworld and of TV3's own Hard Copy).

Series overview

Series		Episodes		Originally aired
				First aired	Last aired
	1	10		6 October 1992 (1992-10-06)	15 December 1992 (1992-12-15)
	2	15		11 November 1993 (1993-11-11)	17 February 1994 (1994-02-17)
	3	15		10 November 1994 (1994-11-10)	23 February 1995 (1995-02-23)
	4	15		9 November 1995 (1995-11-09)	22 February 1996 (1996-02-22)
	5	15		21 November 1996 (1996-11-21)	6 March 1997 (1997-03-06)
	6	15		20 November 1997 (1997-11-20)	4 March 1998 (1998-03-04)

Crossovers

The show regularly crossed over with other TV3 programmes throughout its run.